Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,
QUENTIN CRISPPeople say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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Happiness is the only thing I understand.
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Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): “What’s the matter, sexy? Don’t you like dehydrated fruit?
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I’ve never not been famous.
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If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.
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Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret.
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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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I don’t really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
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I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
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I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in.
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People say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”
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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
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The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.
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